Faith With Power, It's So Jesus Is Glorified

"Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

Why does our Father work through us with power? He works miraculously through us so that the Name of Jesus will be glorified! Jesus came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. He came and died so that we could live, so that we could live as God intended, which means that we live as Jesus lives! Our Father working His miraculous works through us brings glory to Jesus, it validates what He came and did! What good was the Cross, if man couldn’t live in the fullness that Jesus’ sacrifice provided?

If Jesus just came to save us, then He could have been crucified and never had an earthly ministry. But He had a ministry and it was full of power, and it was to show us what our Father wanted. Jesus showed us  how God wanted to work through us, and how we too could live in His fullness! Jesus showed us how we could be used by our Father to serve the needs of the world. Jesus showed us that it wouldn’t be us doing the works, but that it would be God within us doing the works! The great Truth about all of this is that it’s not just Jesus being glorified by the works. Our Father loves us so much that we also are glorified by His works. Look at what God said, “and ye in Him.” We are so important to our Father, and even though it is totally God working through us, we are glorified by it! The power of our salvation is complete! Jesus has provided a way that God can work freely through us, showing His mercy in power and not just in word! It’s our Father's good pleasure to show the world just how good He is. Our Father desires to show the world His grace through His kids! God is glorified, Jesus is glorified, and we are glorified! Faith comes from hearing this Truth, and the Truth sets us free!

The Gospel Goes Beyond Words

"For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." 1 Thessalonians 1:5

Our Father uses us to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ with much assurance and with much power! There should be no doubts when we confess the Truth, there should be none of this, “we can agree to disagree!” The Gospel of God is in power; it’s in the power of the Holy Ghost, and the power of God changes things! Peter walked through the streets and the people just wanted to get close to him, and if they did they were healed! Our Father is not double minded and we now have the mind of Christ! Our Father is a God of absolutes. Jesus proclaimed that God would perform signs and wonders through us, Mark 16, and that the world would follow us as we are led by Him in the paths of righteousness! Jesus proclaimed that our Father would do the works through us that He did through Him. Jesus also taught us that our Father would do even greater works through us! God has spoken that His kingdom is one of power. These are Truths and whether the world accepts them or rejects them makes no difference! If we have truly been empowered to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, then these things will happen through us. If they don’t, then our Father would have lied and our Father is not a man that He should lie!

We will absolutely be used by God to proclaim His Truth’s with power and with much, praise God much, assurance! Greater is He that is within us than He that is in the world!

Our Kingdom Is Powerful

"For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." 1 Corinthians 4:20

We should have power, God’s power, working through us! Just as Jesus had God’s power working through Him!

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” John 14:12

The Kingdom of God is in power, it’s in doing the works that Jesus did and even greater ones. Now that is some power! Jesus doesn’t hymn hall around with this statement either! Jesus said we shall be used by our Father to do miraculous works, no questions about it! Jesus spoke with certainty and with authority about God working through all of us who believe! It’s the power of our Father working through us that allows people to look beyond man, beyond some fancy words, beyond poetic speeches and cunningness and see the Truth, and the Truth will set them free! People need to know that our Father still heals. They need to know that He still gives wisdom and knowledge, peace and joy that pass all understanding. The world needs to know that He understands us and knows our needs, even before we ask. The world needs to know that God is willing and able to do the absolute perfect things in every situation for us! Jesus said that if we believe on Him, then we absolutely would do the works that He did. The Truth is this: if we truly have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, then God absolutely will work through us. He will work through us as He worked through Jesus and our Father will even work greater things through us, because the sacrifice of Jesus has allowed Him to! The hindrances of the price of sin are gone. The Blood of Jesus has destroyed them and the Old Covenant is finished! Our Father is able to work through us with the freedom of the New Covenant, where sin and the wages of it have been destroyed and removed from us. Our Father can now work freely through all of us! Look at what God was able to do with just the one body of Jesus. Now He has millions of us! Faith comes from hearing this Truth!

Father I ask You in the Name of Jesus, that you use each of us, so that the Church will finally walk in the full and complete power that you have provided for us through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior! A-men!

Ministry Beyond Words

"And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor the princes of this world, that come to nought," 1 Corinthians 2: 4-6

Our ministering will absolutely go beyond mere Words, even though our Words are God’s Words, and even though they are eternal Words. As we are anointed to preach the Truth, we will have the Spirit of our Father working His signs and wonders through us. Our Father does this through us so that our faith will not just stand in the wisdom of man! As Jesus said, we will be able to be bitten by deadly snakes, or drink deadly things, and suffer no ill effects from it. We will be used by our Father to cast out demons. The Holy Spirit will cause us to speak and pray in new tongues, and we will be led through the love of our Father to lay hands on the sick and they will recover!

Jesus had the Spirit of God working through Him as He preached the Good News and look at how our Father ministered through Him. As our Father led Jesus to preach the Truth, thousands of people were healed and set free! Jesus walked on the water, He raised the dead, and He prophesied the secrets of people’s lives openly. Jesus’ ministry went beyond Words into actions and Jesus proclaimed that it was always God within Him doing the works! Peter’s ministry did the same, so did Paul’s, and so did Stephen’s! Our Father's signs and wonders followed all who were in the upper room on the Day of Pentecost. Our Father worked miracles in the Old Testament, He worked them through Jesus, and He worked them in the New Testament, and our Father never changes! “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6

Jesus said that the people should believe His Words because of the Works that they saw God performing through Him. “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:11 Through Christ we are now in God and He is now within us, so the same holds true for us! It’s the same God Who changes not doing His works through us. Faith comes from hearing the Truth that we too should have the demonstration of the Holy Spirit working through us!

We Now Have The Good Shepherd

“I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:11

“For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.” 1 Peter 2:25

Have you ever heard a sermon that goes something like this? Our Father has a blessing for us and He is waiting for us and asking why don’t we come and get it? Why don’t we come into the Throne Room? Why don’t we enter the Holy of Holies? Why don’t we accept our healing? Why don’t we do this or that, so that God can pour out His blessings upon us?

Does anyone ever ask the sheep why they don’t just go over that hill to the meadow with the good pasture, instead of hanging out in the dirt? Or do we ask them why don’t they just go through the gate to the calm stream, so that they may drink the fresh, clear, and cool water? Absolutely not! The sheep have a shepherd and the shepherd leads them to these places of abundance! The Shepherd insures that they get there and he insures that they are protected as he leads them there. And praise God we now have the Good Shepherd, Who not only gave His life for us, but Who now ever lives to intercede for us, so that we might be saved to the uttermost, as we have life and have it more abundantly, Hebrews 7:25 Amplified; John 10:10.

We are never left alone to find the abundance of our Father through our own efforts. Our Father is never asking us why we don’t come in to receive His blessings, because He is always leading us into His greatness! God knew who and what we were, so He gave us Jesus and Jesus leads us into the abundance of Him. Jesus eternally leads us in the paths of righteousness for His Names sake! We now have the very peace of Jesus that passes all understanding because we have been empowered to know the Truth that has set us free. The Truth is we now have Jesus to Shepherd us into enjoying and living in the fullness and abundant blessings of God Himself! If we need to go anywhere to get the blessings of our Father, Jesus is the One Who is shepherding us there! A-men!

We are eternally blessed in the power of His might and because the righteous requirements of the law are fully met within us by the Blood of Jesus, the abundant blessings of our Father overtake us as Deuteronomy 28:2 proclaims they will!

50 Reasons Why We Will Never Loose Our Salvation

50 Bible Reasons Why Salvation Cannot Be Lost

Listed below is a list of Bible Reasons that God led me to, they show why we cannot loose our salvation. It is one of the best postings that I have ever read and it was on sallysecretgardens.blogspot.com! I tried to post a comment to her on how great it was and the site wouldn’t let me. I hope she doesn’t mind but I really felt led of the Lord to share it. I have copied it to my computer and will use it again and again! Reason 44 is spectacular, thank you Dora!

Reason 1 Eternal Life is Eternal.
Reason 2 Everlasting Life is Everlasting
Reason 3 It Is Not the Will of God For a Saved Person to Ever be Lost.
Reason 4 You Already Have Reservations in Heaven.
Reason 5 This Salvation You Have Inherited is Incorruptible.
Reason 6 This Salvation You Have Inherited Cannot be Defiled.
Reason 7 At Salvation You Were Sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Reason 8 This Seal is Set in Place for a Specific Period of Time.
Reason 9 The Holy Spirit is Promised to Abide With You Forever.
Reason10 You Are Preserved Forever.
Reason11 You Have Been Born of God and Cannot be Unborn.
Reason12 You Have Been Created by God and Can Never be Uncreated.
Reason13 You are Twice as Safe as the Government of the Universe.
Reason14 You Are Preserved Unto the Heavenly Kingdom.
Reason15 You are Kept by the Power of God.
Reason16 You are Secure Because the Lord Jesus has Prayed that You Would be.
Reason17 Salvation is by Grace and Works Cannot Affect it.
Reason18 You Have Ceased from Your Own Works.
Reason19 Nothing Can Separate You from the Love of Christ.
Reason20 Salvation is of the Lord.
Reason21 Your Salvation is Dependent Only Upon God's Ability.
Reason22 God Promises that You Shall Not Come Into Condemnation.
Reason23 The Lord Jesus Promises that You Shall Never Perish.
Reason24 You Will Never Be Cast Out.
Reason25 It Would Not be Good for You to Lose Your Salvation.
Reason26 You are in the Hand of Christ.
Reason27 You Are in the Hand of the Father.
Reason28 You are a Sheep and Will Remain a Sheep.
Reason29 Saving Mercy Never Ends.
Reason30 God's Performance is as Good as His Promise.
Reason31 All Your Sins Are Gone Forever.
Reason32 The Bible Promises that You Will Ultimately be Like Christ.
Reason33 You are Already Glorified by God's Reckoning.
Reason34 You Have Been Born of Incorruptible Seed.
Reason35 You Will Appear With Christ in Glory.
Reason36 You are Hidden in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Reason37 You Are Dead to Sin.
Reason38 You are Secure Because the Lord is Now Praying for You.
Reason39 God Will Finish What He has Started.
Reason40 Your Salvation was Obtained for You by the Lord.
Reason41 Your Life and the Lord's Life are One and the Same.
Reason42 God's Covenant With You is Everlasting.
Reason43 The Lord Jesus is Able to Keep you from Falling.
Reason44 When Jesus Died for You, All Your Sins Were Future Sins.
Reason45 God Cannot Lie.
Reason46 Salvation is a Gift Which Will Not be Retracted.
Reason47 You Have Imputed Righteousness.
Reason48 You Have Become a Part of Christ Himself.
Reason49 The Lord Jesus is the Author and Finisher of Your Faith.
Reason50 The Authority of the Word of God.

Faith Comes By Hearing God's Word

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of the Lord." Romans 10:17

Faith comes from hearing the Word of our Father through Jesus Christ! Hallelujah let’s look at the Word of our Father then and get some faith!

“I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

A-men, through Christ we will be used by our Father to produce much fruit. Look at how Jesus says it’s an absolute certainty that our Father will use us and that He will produce works of righteousness through us! Our Father is not a man that He should lie and Jesus said that if we abide in Him, and if He abides within us, then we will produce much fruit! And the only way that we are able to abide in Jesus is because He now abides within us; He strengthens us and enables us to abide within Him! There is no boasting here, it is all Jesus; He is the One Who enables us to abide permanently within Him! We cannot help but to abide in Christ once that we are saved. Because the only reason that we are alive now is because it is Christ within Who is alive.

“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

How could a branch live apart from the vine? We can’t fool God and get temporally attached to Jesus; once we are a branch of Christ, we are a branch of Christ! A member of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone!

“For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone.” Ephesians 5:30

There are no doubts in Jesus’ Words; there are no maybes, if we are truly saved, then we will produce much fruit! Through Jesus and through His power within our lives, we will be active and full of righteous works. Through Christ we can do all things and through Christ we will do all things!

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

The power here is Jesus’, it’s Jesus that is the force behind our active Godly lifestyles. We do not trust in ourselves to please God! We trust in Jesus, He Authors and Finishes our faith. We trust in Jesus and in His abilities to work through us and in His abilities to please God! Just as the branch bears the fruit of the vine, so do we! Everything people see being done through us is because it is Christ within us doing it and Christ is a fruitful Vine! Faith comes from hearing this Truth!

We Now Have The Power Of God To Witness

“And with great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.” Acts 4:33

Our Father is great and He has never done anything that isn’t. He empowered Samson, He gave Solomon wisdom, He used King David to kill Goliath, He walked this earth manifested in the flesh as Jesus, and He worked miracles through the Apostles with great power and with great grace! Our Father knows how to witness! He can preach a sermon and then work miracles left and right to confirm the Words that He spoke and prove that they are Truth!

Our Father wants to use each and every one of us with the fullness of His power! Faith allows Him to and we have the strength of Christ so that He can! Together with God there is nothing that cannot be accomplished through us! Our Father can talk about how He raised Jesus from the dead through us, just as He spoke through Jesus about how it was going to happen! Our Father is confident in His abilities; He is assured that His Word is powerful and just like with the Apostles, He will freely bestow His grace, His great grace, on each and every one of us!

Our Father has given us a new heart that desires His Truth, a heart that is filled with the very love that He has for Jesus. We now have a heart that seeks His fullness, a heart that eagerly desires His Spiritual gifts, and a heart that has no fear of accepting that He wants such great things for us! This is what is in abundance in the new heart that our Father has given us and this is how our mouths speak! We don’t go looking for God, we know Him, we know He is in us, and we know that we are in Him! Out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths will speak!

“Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” Romans 8:37

Through Christ Nothing Is Impossible

“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain remove to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” Matthew 17:20

Our Father's Anointing has strengthened us so that there is now nothing that is impossible for Him to do through us! How great is that! Our Father can now tell a mountain to move through us and it will obey Him! To me this shows the greatness of our Father's love for us. Sure He could tell a mountain to move on His own, but He allows us to be involved! Our Father allows us to enjoy His power with Him. We can now experience life as He experiences it! Our Father hasn’t held anything back from us; He has given us the power of Christ, so that we can be filled with all of His fullness! Our Father has given us His glory, just as He gave it to Jesus. Read John 17 and see how many times Jesus prays for our glory. Our Father wants us to have all of Him and it’s an all or nothing proposition!

Our words should portray these Truths. Our Father has said that for us to have faith, we must first hear His Truth, whether by a preacher or by the Holy Spirit, but faith comes by hearing God’s Word! If the only thing that the church does is talk about how great that God moved through the people in the Bible, what good is it? We need to know that our Father is still the same God and that He will still speak through us as He spoke through them, and when He speaks, glory be to God, things happen! We have the same strength that the people in the bible had. We have the same Anointing that Jesus has, it’s the same Spirit working through us, and it’s the same Word! Faith for our Father to use us in the fullness of His love and in the active nature of His love comes from us hearing His Words that say that we can! Through the power of Christ in our lives we should speak as Jesus speaks!

Through Christ We Will Be Used By God To Do All Things

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Is there anything that Jesus cannot do? Absolutely not, He can do anything and that is the force that is now strengthening us. Jesus has unlimited access to the full power of our Father, because the Two of Them are One! This is our strength! Jesus spoke to situations, He told them what to do and they obeyed Him! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He changes not! He will speak through us as He spoke. No, it’s even more powerful than that, He will speak through us as He now speaks, with the full empowerment of the New Covenant!

As we speak people should hear God, they should see His righteousness through us. We should tell storms to stop, the sick to be whole, and the dead to be raised. We should tell the demons to flee, because it is our Father within us empowering us to speak! We should speak with the full power of the resurrection and of the love of God! The Truth is this: our Father now has the full freedom to speak through us just as He spoke through Jesus, because the separation of sin has been removed from us! Our Father has not given us a spirit of fear; we can have all joy in accepting and believing this. He has given us a sound mind, a mind of His Anointing; so that we can understand this, and He has given us His love that now dwells within us.

To speak as Jesus speaks is to allow the love of our Father to be fully active within our lives! Jesus came and He healed the sick, He spoke of the love of God and now God has millions of bodies to speak through! Jesus came as one man and He spoke of salvation, and millions throughout the ages have believed and been saved. And now our Father has millions of us to speak the same message through! Jesus has given us Himself, and through His strength, we are now able to allow Him to be all that He is within us! There are now no limitations for the power of God to be revealed within us on the earth! Our Father can do all things through us, because His Anointing has strengthened us so that He can!

We Now Speak WIth The Power Of God Himself

“Ye are of God little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

Our Father is now greater in us than anything or anyone that is in the world, and this Truth is how righteousness speaks! This Truth is what has been shed abroad in our hearts! This is the Truth that we have been born again of and it is what we have become one with! The Supreme Court is not greater than our Father, Who we are now in and Who is now within us! There is no sickness and no disease that is greater than our Father, Who is in us! Recessions or Depressions are not greater than our Father, Who is now in us! There is no terrorist or threat that is greater than our Father, Who is now within us! The US Congress, the European Union, the UN, or any President or Prime Minister is nothing compared to the Living God, Who has made us His Living Temple!

Jesus spoke to storms and they ceased! He told the devil to get lost and he fled! He told the dead to rise and even when they were still bound in grave clothes they came forth! Our Father spoke aloud and the people marveled at what they had heard and said that it had thundered, and Jesus simply said that God had spoken on their account and not on His. He spoke this way because He knew where God was. He didn’t need a sign from our Father, because Jesus had the sign to know where God was, He was born of Him! The people were all looking for our Father up in Heaven, but Jesus knew that He was right there, and that our Father was in Him! Jesus knew of the greatness of our Father and He spoke with that confidence, because it was our Father speaking through Him! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free, so that we too are able to have God speaking through us, in all of His power and with the full force of His grace, love, and virtue!

Be blessed in the power of God’s might!

Why We Speak Abundant Faith

“But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above:” Romans 10:8

Our Father and His Word are now in abundance in our hearts and because they are, that is what is spoken abundantly out of our mouths! For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak, Matthew 12:34! Our Father has given us a new heart and we no longer have to seek for Him, because we now know that He is always with us, just as He is always with Jesus. We are now eternally one with our Father through our Lord and Savior. This is how the righteousness of faith, which is in abundance in our hearts, speaks. This is how the faith that is Authored and Finished by Jesus speaks! We speak this way because it is the actual Anointing of God speaking through us. God's Holy Spirit cries out from within us that He is our Father, that we are born of Him, and that we are one with Him through Jesus Christ our Savior! We talk like Jesus talks, because Jesus is now our Head, and He is now our righteousness! We have been crucified with Jesus, and yet we still live, but it is not our old self that is alive anymore, that body of sin and unrighteousness was destroyed, it is now the new man, recreated in Christ that lives! We are now new creatures in Christ, old things and the old way of speaking have passed away. It is now Christ that is alive within us and everything has become new for us! We speak like Christ, because we can speak no other way, we are now one with Him; we are joint-heirs with Him, we are His body! We have been recreated in God’s image in true righteousness and true holiness! We have been born again from the Incorruptible Seed of God and we will speak as the Seed that has bore us speaks! A-men, how glorious is the awesome power that God now has through us because of Jesus!

How Righteousness Speaks

"But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The Word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the Word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed" Romans 10:8-11

A-men, we don’t have to go up to Heaven and get Jesus to come down here to help us! We don’t have to bombard the Gates of Heaven with our prayers to get our Father's attention! Our salvation through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, gives us direct access and unity with our Father. Jesus hasn’t just given us access to God either; He has made us one with Him, just as He is One with Him! We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone. We are now the Holy habitation of God Himself. Our Father's righteousness cries out from within us that He is always with us. Our Father is always in our hearts, we now have His Spirit. We now have the mind of His Anointing. We are now actually one with God here on this earth!

“And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then a heir of God through Christ.” Galatians 4:6-7

Our conversation should reflect these absolute Truth’s! There is never a situation, good or bad, when we are separated from our Father. And out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak! Now our hearts are filled with God Himself and the Truth’s that He has filled us with will set forth His righteous works in our lives! We are a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish and greater is He that is in us than anything that is in the world! Through the power of the Holy Spirit we are strengthened to talk and act like it!

Our Body Of Sin Has Been Destroyed So That We May Be Used By God

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6

We have no confidence in our flesh, because through Christ our flesh has been destroyed! If you are in a battle and the soldier beside you is killed, would you put any confidence in His ability to protect you? Absolutely not, and that is how it is with us, we have no confidence in our flesh, because it is as dead as dead can be. Our flesh has no ability to do anything that would earn us right standing with God! We now put our trust in the Bright and Shinning Star that is Jesus, He is alive, He is brilliant, and He is with us, He is in us, and He is One with us! This is where our confidence lies, this is the wisdom and knowledge that fills the new mind and heart that our Father has given us! Our minds now look towards the Truth and they do not stumble over it! We have been fully equipped, so that we can be the very vessels of honor that our Father desires to work through!

Our Father now has millions of born again believers, all united and one in Christ, that can be used just like Jesus is used. We are truly an army of one! These mortal bodies of ours have been quickened and made alive together with Christ, because we are born again from the very Incorruptible Seed of God.

“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” Ephesians 2:5

We are now the very tools that God works through on this earth! And since we have been empowered to give ourselves up for God, He has raised us up together and we have been seated together with Jesus our Savior.

“And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6-7 Faith comes from hearing the Word, and the Truth of God’s Word sets us free!

Righteousness is ours, it’s ours because Jesus gave it to us. Righteousness allows God to be with us, and righteousness allows God to work through us! The works of God do not make us righteous; Jesus makes us righteous! This is the freedom of salvation, and God would that we all have it!

Our Mind Wants To Be Used By God

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

Jesus has given us a sound mind. He has given us His mind. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 Jesus has given us His mind and Jesus’ mind knows that our Father will produce much fruit through us! We now have the peace and the wisdom that Jesus has about us. We know beyond any shadow of a doubt, just as Jesus knows, that it is our Father within us producing His fruit! We have been given a mind of knowledge that knows it’s only by the Anointing of God, which is Christ, that God is able to work through us! We do not fear this Truth that we have to put complete and total trust in God and that we can place no trust in ourselves. The sound mind that our Father has given us, gives us the ability to believe this way! We have been given the same mind as Christ, we now believe as He believes!

We know that it is a lie of the devil that says God helps those who help themselves! We now have a mind that does not fear the complete and total power of God that is working through us! We have a mind that desires the fullness of God to be within us and a mind that expects Him to do His works through us! We have a mind that expects victory in every situation and in every area of our lives!

"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14

This is the faith that Jesus has given us, His faith, and there is not one work that we could ever perform that could ever earn it. Our flesh on its own just doesn’t have the ability to work that way! But through Christ, our Father will always cause us to triumph and He will always use us to make Jesus known in every place! Through Christ, our Father will lead us into the world to preach the Gospel to every creature and through Christ we will proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus proclaimed in silence!

Our Confidence Is Jesus

"For we are of the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Philippians 3:3

Through the Anointing of our Father in our lives we have absolutely no reason to ever put any trust or confidence in ourselves. We never have to take thought that we have to first do something on our own that will allow God to move in our lives! We have been given the peace of our Father that passes all understanding. We have been allowed to see the Truth that we are righteous because Jesus is righteous. “For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16 God has freed us and we are now blessed because we have obtained righteousness apart from our own works. Our Father has now revealed the Truth to us and we no longer have to rely on ourselves or our own abilities to be right with Him. Through the revelation of who we are in Christ, we now have absolutely no confidence in human abilities!

Even our faith is not our own any longer, our faith is now Jesus’ faith. We now stand in the power of His ability to believe God. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit, to dwell permanently within us, so that through the power of God Himself, we are now able to look to Jesus for His faith! Jesus does not stumble at the promises of our Father. He is completely confident that God is willing and that our Father is able to do all that He has spoken. This is faith, and this is what Jesus Authors and Finishes within us! Since Jesus has given us His faith, our Father is now able to work His works of righteousness through us. Our Father is able to cast out demons through us. God is able to heal the sick through us and He is able to preach the Gospel to every creature through us. Our Father does not fail and it is our Father Who always works through us.

Through Christ we will never be ashamed and we will always rejoice in our Father's Anointing! We will rejoice because Jesus has given us the faith that it is now God within us working; we no longer have to look to ourselves. People are not healed by the power of our hands being laid on them; they are healed by the power of our Father that is within us, Who led us to lay hands on them! It’s no longer us sharing the Gospel, it’s God within us sharing it! We will never be ashamed because Jesus has given us His faith that our Father is able and willing to work through us completely! Jesus Authors our faith to be just as His faith, so that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that we can do nothing without Him. But with Jesus, God will use us to do all things! We have been empowered to not stumble at the Stumbling-stone. We have been anointed to accept the Truth that we can do nothing without our Lord Jesus and we have been saved from the lies that say we should even try. Through Christ, and our Father's Truth of who we are in Christ, we are never ashamed!

Righteousness Comes To Us Through Christ, Not By Works

"Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." Romans 9:32-33

Whoever has been empowered to believe in Jesus shall not be ashamed! Thank God that we do not have to depend on our own works to obtain righteousness! We are no longer limited by the power of our humanity; the power that sin had over us has been removed and we have been set free to walk in the greatness of God. Our Father has given us Jesus, the best that He has and Jesus has been made the righteousness of God for us! And through Jesus and through the power that He now exhibits through us, we will never be ashamed! Through Jesus we succeed in every area of our lives. Jesus will never fail us and He will always allow God to triumph through us!

Jesus is completely dead to sin! The power that separated man from God, which is sin, was destroyed for us by Jesus at the Cross! Sin lost all effect and power over us because of the righteous Blood that Jesus shed for us! All of the forces of evil that attempted to overcome Jesus while He was here as a man, lost all of their abilities over Him when God raised Him from the dead! “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.” Romans 6:9-10

Jesus is the righteous Stumblingstone that our Father has laid in Sion! Man apart from Christ wants to earn his own righteousness and many stumble over the free grace of God that is Christ! Righteousness without Christ is sin to our Father! The Truth for life is this, it’s God’s way or it’s death. Our Father wants us righteous and He gave us only one way to become righteous, and that way is by being born again! No work will do, we just have to simply accept God’s free gift, and Jesus gives us the faith to accept it!

We Have Jesus' Anointing To Be Used

“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19

Hallelujah, our Father works through us in the full power and demonstration of His Spirit! Think of the way that Jesus lived when He was manifested in the flesh. Our Father had compassion on the sick, so He used Jesus to heal the sick and He used Jesus to raise the dead! Jesus didn’t stumble at Who He was, He rejoiced in it. We are now one with Him and our Father has given us an Anointed mind that looks towards Jesus for full understanding of who we are. Jesus will show us and He will give us the ability to accept and have boldness in who we are!

Now here is the powerful Truth of our salvation, if we have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, we can’t help but look to Him!

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

If we are truly saved, it is now Christ, which is our Father's anointing, the exact same anointing that Jesus has, that now lives within us. The exact same anointing that God gave to Jesus to live and to fulfill all that He was sent to do, now lives within us! The same anointing that allowed Jesus to know that it was God within Him doing all of the works, now lives within us! The same anointing that allowed Jesus to know that He was One with God, now lives within us! We have not been given a different anointing than Jesus has. We have the exact same anointing and it is that force that now lives within us. We cannot help but to look unto Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, the very life force within us can do nothing else! We will win and our Father will work through us. This way of life is not dependant upon our abilities to accept our Father's Truth’s either, it’s dependent upon Jesus’ abilities, and He finished all that was needed for us to fully believe at the Cross!

Jesus will Author and He will Finish our faith and it will allow our Father to be all that He is within us! How great is that? The freedom that we have been given through salvation: our Father does the works and we receive the rewards! Through Christ, our Father can now have fellowship with us and through Christ He is able to work through us as He has always desired to. Jesus makes us able vessels unto God’s righteousness! Our Father will show His signs through us and we will glorify Him in every action! Through Christ we will never stumble or fall!

“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.” Jude 24

Because we are saved, and because we are now one with Jesus, and since we have His Anointing, we will never fall, and we will stand before God with boldness and with all joy! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world!

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

No Fear To Be Used

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18

The Light of our Savior will cast out all of the darkness of fear from us! Jesus’ love is perfect love and He will do all that it takes for us to insure that we walk in His perfect love. Jesus will lead us in a path that insures that we accept His perfect love and that we trust in it, so that there will be no fear at all within us! We are perfect in Jesus' love because of the power of His love! The power of Jesus’ perfect love cast out all fear from within us of not measuring up, or questions about God’s willingness to use us. Read anywhere in the Bible, about anything that we are to do and then remember, look to Jesus and He will Author and He will Finish the faith to live it! Our Father has not given us a spirit of fear; all of the fullness and power of God that we read of in the Bible is for us! “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 Through Christ, there is no darkness at all for us! Through Christ and the freedom that His Blood brings, we can have the fullness of God within us, 100% of the time, working all of the works of an abundant godly life, an abundant life here on this earth, and an abundant eternal life!

“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Through Jesus we will stand fully confident with boldness on the day of judgment, there will be no fear within us, for His love has cast out all fear from us! We will have boldness, we will have full assured faith, Authored by Jesus Himself, that we have the right to stand there. Because just as Jesus lived on this earth, so did we; we will have lived by the power of our Father within us and He did the works! How awesome is that? Just as sure as Jesus, that’s how sure we will be! Jesus knew that He was going to be raised from the dead and that He was going to be seated at the right hand of God, and He knew that it was His right and there was no fear in Him at all that it was going to happen. That is how we will be when Jesus returns! The Church will be bold in who we are in Christ, there will be no fear and there will be no doubts, because as He is, so were we, even in this world!

Our Father Will Use Us

“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:10-11

The first faithful thing that Jesus will lead us into regarding works is this: it is our Father within us, He does the works! Faith authored by Jesus regarding this Truth is the key to walking in the full power and love of God Himself! Faith in this Truth will allow us to walk as Jesus walked! “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 “I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness.” John 12:46

Through Jesus we are empowered to live and understand all of the Truth’s of our Father! Through Christ and the Light that He provides there is now no darkness for us! And since there is now no darkness for us, there is now no occasion for us to stumble and fall! Jesus will teach us all that there is to know about God and He will give us the confidence and full assuredness that it is our Father within us doing His works of righteousness! Jesus will Author the faith within us so that God can give us the utterance to speak in new tongues. Jesus will finish the faith within us so that our Father can cast out all devils through us! Jesus will Author and Finish our faith, so that God can empower us to suffer no harm or ill effects from deadly things! Through Christ, and through the faith that He now gives us, we will lay hands on the sick and the power of our Father within us will cause them to recover, just as they recovered when Jesus laid His hands on them!

Jesus will Finish our faith so that we just don’t talk about these Truth’s of God. He will Finish our faith so that we will actually live and rejoice in the Truth’s of God. And the world will believe and they will know that God loves us, just as He loves Jesus because of it! We will live in the fullness of our Father and in the power of our Father because Jesus has given us the faith that allows our Father to work fully through us!

Jesus Is Our Faith

“Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

There is no greater Truth regarding our faith than this: true godly faith can only come from Jesus. Jesus endured the Cross and all of the pain and suffering that went along with it for the shear joy of being the only One Who could lead us into completely and totally trusting in God! Jesus begins our faith and He finishes our faith. Faith is not a human ability to accept and believe the things of God. Faith is God’s ability working through us, by the power of Christ, to accept and believe His eternal Truths! No one is greater at faith than Jesus and we have free access to Him, and Jesus will freely Author our faith and He will freely Finish our faith! Only with faith that has been Authored and Finished by Jesus can we accept and walk in the full power of what God has provided for us. Faith that comes from Jesus will never stumble at the promises of God and it will never hesitate or question the Truths of God. Only faith that is produced by Jesus is fully pleasing to God! “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 When we allow Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, then we too are fully pleasing to God, just as Jesus is fully pleasing to God! On our own and through our own efforts we have no ability to believe any Truth of God, only through the power of Christ can we walk in true faith, and then we have the ability to accept all of the Truth’s of God! This precious gift is unlimited and it is available for all who seek it; Jesus will Author and Finish faith for everyone who looks unto Him!

Faith In The Truth Of Signs

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17

“And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

We all need to hear the Truth. We all need to hear that Jesus said that those who believe will have these signs following them: casting out devils, speaking in tongues, no deadly thing harming them, and being used by our Father to perform miraculous healings. The Truth will set us free! The Truth will set us free from fearing gifts like tongues. The Truth will allow us to see why we have them, what they are, and that it is God within us doing them! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets the world free!

The great Truth about the signs of God, the signs that will follow us, is that they are only happening because it is God within us doing them. Through the power and freedom that Jesus’ sacrifice has provided, our Father can now do all things through us! There are no limitations for our Father any longer; He is now free to work through us as He worked through Jesus.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Christ, the Anointing of God, allows us to do all things and it is the Father within us, He is doing the works! Christ allows our Father to do all things through us. Because of this the world will see God through us, and the world will accept Him. They will accept our Father not just because we talk about Him, but they will believe by experiencing the signs that He performs through us! There will be no doubt as to the One Who is working through us, because the works will go beyond man’s abilities, and God will be glorified by them! We should all eagerly desire the love of God, which manifest itself in the signs He performs through us. We should all eagerly desire that God use us as vessels of His honor and that the sick are healed by His power working through us. We should desire that our Father uses our mouths to utter exact prophecies in whatever language that is needed, and that because of Him and the signs that are an evidence of His presence, multitudes come to believe and be saved!

Jesus is Lord and this is the day that He has made and through His glorious presence within our lives we will rejoice and be glad in it!

The Power Of The Sign Of Healing

“They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:18

The Word of God says that we shall be used by Him to lay hands on the sick and they will recover. The sick will recover, the sign of God within us goes beyond just praying for the sick, the proof of God within us, is the sick recover!

“And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.” Acts 5:14-16

All that were sick were healed. They weren’t just prayed for, they were healed, and because of the power of our Father working through the believers, multitudes were saved! The ministry of healing grew the Church like nothing else! Without television, without radio, without telephones, without mailers, and without the Internet, people, even from far away cities, came and were added to our Father because of the ministry of healing! The power of the sign of healing is unmatched! Jesus healed everywhere He went, and so did the Apostles, so did Paul, and so did those who believed! Man has no ability to miraculously heal apart from God! We have to create a medicine with side effects. We have to cut a person open and remove something, or shoot poison into the sick and hope that it kills the sickness before it kills the person. This is man’s healing process and we charge enormous amounts of money for it. But our Father just heals, no pain, no charge, and when He does, people get saved, even those who just watch it! Jesus taught us that all who believe would have this sign follow them and as our Father had Paul write, we all should eagerly desire it!

The Sign Of Tongues

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues;” Mark 16:17

Jesus taught us that we would speak in new tongues if we believe and are saved. “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4 Notice that on the Day of Pentecost, all of the believers were speaking in new tongues, not just the Apostles, but all 120 people, both women and men. All of the believers who were there spoke with new tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance! Jesus said the sign of speaking in new tongues would follow all who believe. Speaking in tongues is a sign of the presence of our Father. Whether we are speaking in an earthly language that is not our own or a heavenly one, it is the Spirit that gives us the ability to do so, and it is a sign that our Father is real, that He is alive, and that He dwells within us.

“Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the Divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).” 1 Corinthians 14:1 Amplified Bible. Tongues are a gift of God that acts as a sign to the world, a sign that proves that our Father is real, and since it does, we should eagerly desire it. Should we desire tongues above the other gifts of the Spirit, no; but we should desire it.

Think of never needing an interpreter to preach the Gospel. How awesome, regardless of which nation we will be in, the power of the Holy Spirit will give us exactly the Words that God wants spoken, exactly when they should be spoken, and exactly how the people hearing them need to hear them spoken. Through the power of the Spirit we can speak to a person, even if we have never spoken their language before, exactly as God would speak to them. Think of the intimacy and understanding that our Father has, and that is exactly how we may be used to speak to them! Awesome, absolutely awesome! Think of praying in tongues, speaking the language of the Angels. The Spirit of God giving us the utterance, so that we are praying exactly what needs to be prayed, exactly how it needs prayed, and all through the power of God Himself! Jesus said that we all would speak in new tongues and the Holy Ghost inspired Paul to write that we should all eagerly desire it! The gifts of our Father are not to be feared, we haven’t been given a spirit of fear, but of power; God’s signs should be desired by all of us.

There is also now no condemnation for us. Tongues is a gift. So if you haven't received the gift yet, there is no condemnation. It just means that our Father hasn't yet given you the gift. He will, when He is ready for you to have it. It will be in the perfect time and you will be used perfectly to use it.